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Glossolalia (Speaking in Tongues)
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[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. New Testament – III. Psychology of Religion…
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Religion Past and Present
Kingdom of God
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1. OT The OT contains only a few late references to the kingdom of God. The terms used—Heb.
mĕlûkâ,
malkût,
mamlākâ; Aram.
malkû, šolṭān, all meaning “kingdom,” “kingly rule,” or “empire”—show that what is meant is God’s royal rule or dominion. None of these well-attested terms, however, is primarily theological. For the most part, they refer to earthly kingdoms and empires, whether Israelite, Babylonian, or Persian. There is certainly unanimity that ¶ God gives and takes away earthly dominion (see 2 Sam. 16:8; 1 Chr. 10:14, etc.), but this conviction did not at first give rise to any more profound theological reflection. The theological basis of the idea of the kingdom of God is to be found, rather, in the preexilic theology of the Jerusalem temple, which viewed God as King. This idea was strongly influenced by Canaanite religion, which found concrete expression by way of the Ugaritic texts. At the heart of the Jerusalem theology stood “the Lord of Hosts” (
YHWH ṣĕbāʾôt), present on Zion, as the pers…
